this shit is why i'm unironically trying to prepare myself for the day that i just can't fucking bear to use computers any more, like i'm trying to slowly wean myself off being a "tech guy" and into learning to use a sewing machine and just being happy picking mushrooms in the forest and going to the gym..

I was recently amazed to discover that you can now buy 10W portable solar chargers that are ACTUALLY portable, and cost like 9 euro
Feels like yesterday that they were 10x the cost and it took 3 bulky panels to get enough juice that you could maybe theoretically charge your phone if there are no clouds in the sky!

from what i've gathered i'd say china is basically as good as most developed countries, with the quirk that it has a fucking bonkers huge population and unlike a lot of the other high-population-density countries the population is really concentrated in the cities rather than the whole country just being a single continous shanty town.
And as a result of both the absolute size of the population, and the fact that they live in high-density and quite new cities (and a lot of infrastucture in general is basically from the past 100 years if even that), it means that you get things like an extensive high speed train network and whatnot.

So it's like if france had 12 Parises and a fairly repressive government. Though it should be noted that chinese politics seems significantly less terrible on a local level, and at this point the rest of the world has started catching up on the whole dystopian government thing..

100x would require some sort of hypercommunist wage equality regulation

it's just Frontier Psychiatrist on repeat

sounds plenty revelatory to me

what i can't imagine is being the adults who think it's worth giving a single fuck about, how fucked up do you have to be to treat kids that way?
It always makes me think of my grandpa, who was by all means raised in the kind of culture where that kind of thing might happen, but by the magic of being a basically good person he hit my dad ONCE and felt absolutely terrible about it and never did it again.

like i get that people were raised to think differently in the past, but i don't buy that you can be raised into accepting child abuse.

i've never understood people who say you hold the knife with your dominant hand, i'm as right handed as it gets and i hold my fork in the right hand because i want maximum control over the thing holding the food!
Sure, that leaves the knife hand with less power and precision, but like if i need that much force then something has gone wrong when cooking..

tbh it seems like as time goes on i learn that israel has been bombing palestinians earlier and earlier, wouldn't be surprised if someone responds to this with a link to bible passages about it..

i'm getting a bit pudgy so who knows what my belt buckle might do when i'm forced to shimmy past the car

i mean she did also live in egypt which tends to make people less pale regardless of genetics

you should see what some swedes look like by the time autumn rolls in, like a packet of fucking beef jerky